JTMA Partners With CEMATEX

August 1, 2002

JTMA Partners With CematexJunichi Murata, president of the Japanese Textile Machinery Manufacturers
Association (JTMA), and Bernard Terrat, president of the European Committee of Textile Machinery
Manufacturers (CEMATEX), have signed an agreement making JTMA an official partner of ITMA Asia. The
partnership will begin with ITMA Asia 2005.Since 1976 JTMA has sponsored OTEMAS, a quadrennial
textile machinery show held in Osaka, Japan. CEMATEX debuted ITMA Asia in Singapore in October of
2001, immediately after the 7th OTEMAS, also as a quadrennial exhibition, to alternate with the
European ITMA show.August 2002